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MJP: Parting shot all in jest, you understand. The Last Day Of The Pentameter Kid 'Isn't it a lovely day, Mr Fogel?" "Oh yeah, yeah" "What are those lumps on your kepala?' "The buknets from Ward B pummeled me with their iambic tetrameters" "Dont worry, Mr Fogel, we'll see to it...

Funny!! And I don't mean it in a "reverse psychology" sense. Genuinely funny & creative! I'm really enjoying your sardonic humor!! And I appreciate you guys spending all this time & effort on an old fogey whose brain cells are rapidly disappearing without the possibility of regeneration. I...

You hit the HEAD on the NAIL!! Works quite well with stubborn pre-adolescent children, too! They always want to do the opposite of what Mommy and Daddy are telling them. OMG..where did you get my pic??? Yeah, hat's me in the middle. Now I've been exposed as a blatant liar! (as well as a...

Hey chronic:Yes, but I didn't say that I didn't suffer from LWS (last word syndrome). But you can bet the house if the tables were turned and mjp said he would bet that I would respond to HIS last reply..no way in hell. I've got ego..but i'm not a total masochist. I know when to pull in the...

I knew you would respond. Everyone on this post knew. Why? Because you wouldn't be able to sleep or function without throwing your last penny into the fray. " i've been receiving these crazed "Private Messages" clamoring for more founders whilst not saying the most kindest of words about.." Of...

aww..poor baby..gotcha worried for a moment..huh? what happened to the sardonic humor so prevelent just a few replies ago? You sound so serious & somber. Chill Out, man. Now listen, why the hell would I bet you? Use your keppela. Why the hell would I bet when THE RACE IS FIXED. Huh? Being a...

d Gray: You GOT IT, baby! A Found Poem with sardonic humor! You recycled the verbal bullshit of niceguy and juxtoposed it in a surprisingly different way, thus giving the original bullshit sayings of niceguy a new lease on life. As painter Howard Town wrote, "and its marvelous to think of the...

You guys don't get it. They are great FOUND poems--not great poems. For christ sake, they're just a reworking-- usually from a sub-literary source-- a turning of the verbal iambic undertone of formal or neo-formal academic-structured poesy up full volume for a moment, offering a chance to...

I'd like everyone to know that MJP deleted 3 fantastic founders (and he KNOWS they are top-notch and would interest Buk lovers) that I sent to Bukowski who absolutely LOVED them (along with a Bukowski-related Poetry Slam). I was led to believe (and I read in one of MJP posts) that you were...

Wish Me Luck, Mockingbirds Hey, you guys are clever and sardonic! Never knew I had so many profreaders, oops I meant proofreaders (altho the first misspelling might apply) to choose from to help free my Extravagant Absurdities of spelling or syntactical enjambments. Thanks Zazen! Thanks MJP...

MJP: "not that anyone would consider what you posted poetry" Hey, the Buk considered it poetry--an outstanding and amusing found poem. I think everyone on this post will agree that Bukowski might be a little better judge of what constitutes an excellent experimental found poem--than you...

I had a lengthly correspondence with Bukowski in the late 70s /early 80s. At the time, he was already a "legend" and receiving 200 letters on average per week from fans--and detractors. I was one of a handful that he regularly corresponded with--primarily because he knew I was a top-notch horse...

Hello David: Yeah, I'm back-altho don't know for how long as i'm pushing 70 and tired of the whole game. Yeah, I received a response from Mailer to a letter I had written him inquiring if he knew about Bukowski and what he (Mailer) thought of the buk. He wrote a short letter back (which--by the...

The poem from my letter meets my qualifications as to a great buk poem: fluidity, rhythm, great imagery. Perhaps the way I structuraly delineated it caused you to think it was loosely structured, but in the letter it was laid out line for line vertically Here it is again (slanted lines denoting...

I had a lengthly correspondence with Bukowski from the late 70s thru the early 80s (about 30 letters total). I can assure you that in many of the letters bukowski would interject a stream-of-conscious poem that was awesome..he'd be responding to my previous dissertation upon the art of horse...